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Famous Quotes

"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war."

John Andrew Holmes on War

More quotes about War

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

John Andrew Holmes on Albert Einstein

"One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

John Andrew Holmes on Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

John Andrew Holmes on Albert Einstein

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

John Andrew Holmes on Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."

John Andrew Holmes on Winston Churchill

More quotes by John Andrew Holmes

"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war."

"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry."

"Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe."